engine within the project

omar shaaban · Post by **omar shaaban** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:58 pm

i looked up on some opengl tutorials and it seems good and easy,
but do i have first to make my engine in opengl then use it to do my project or just have the project(game for example) and the opengl engine (classes and functions) in the same application
because honestly i know how to make an engine (classes) but dont know how to export it into a .dll and a .lib like irrlicht!

DeM0nFiRe · Post by **DeM0nFiRe** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:51 pm

You could do either. Irrlicht is designed to be especially plug n' play so it can be used as a dynamic library, however if you ware making an engine for your own use, having the engine sources with the project sources isn't necessarily a bad thing. Just make sure you code cleanly so that if you need to reuse the engine, it won't be like surgery to separate the engine from the rest of it.

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:52 pm

you can do it either way...

either you put the engine code into the game project or make a separate project (dll) for the engine...

to build a dll you'll have to create a dll project with your IDE (e.g. in Code::Blocks you'll select the "Dynamic Link Library" project)...

omar shaaban · Post by **omar shaaban** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:03 pm

thats good ,ofcourse coding clean is a should
thanks